Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

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Beaver Overthinking Dam
HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO—Local beaver Dennis Messner is spending an inordinate amount of time and effort in the planning and construction phases of building his dam, according to neighbors close to the project.
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“There are two primary schools of thought on dam building: the instinctive school […]

This has never been, nor will it ever be a confessional web site. I can barely stand my own attempts at traditional, private pen-on-paper journaling, and they eventually wind up gathering dust until I stumble across them months later and toss them in the trash, horrified at the linguistic and literary sins I’ve committed. However, […]

It started out as a simple upgrade from WordPress 1.5.x to 2.0.2. Then I started looking around for 3-column themes, one of which I really liked. Customization followed, and more customizations. And then some page edits. The net result: after 4 years of using the same basic template, I have an entirely new layout and […]

Windsor McCay, Daydreams and Nightmares.
Flipping through the book before I cataloged it, I noticed the similarities between McCay’s illustrations of flying machines and Miyazaki’s, particularly in Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky. A quick search revealed that not only had that observation been noted before, but that Miyazaki had actually received the Windsor McCay […]